Since February, the Oncology Exercise Group (OEG) has been running twice a week for eight weeks for people who are deconditioned as a result of their cancer or treatment. It is open to people before, during or up to one year after treatment. Initial outcomes for patients are positive, with 50 referrals since launch.

The Hospital in the Home program is a community acute and post-acute care service operating at the Sydney Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Some major tertiary paediatric hospitals have a variation of the public health service but the concept is still relatively new.

Helping tradespeople understand just how much physiotherapy can assist them recover from injury and how physiotherapists can help educate them about work-related injury avoidance techniques are the foci of this month’s Tradies National Health Month.

On 1 July 2018, changes to the way businesses report information to the ATO will come into effect. Specifically, businesses with more than 20 employees are now required to report the tax and super information to the ATO each time they pay their employees. 

It is now time for businesses with less than 20 employees to ensure they are Single Touch Compliant from 1 July 2019.

Pain is the focus of this issue of InMotion magazine and it brings views from an impressive range of experts in pain management and includes a history of the APA Pain group.

My pain expertise is as a patient who has experienced healthcare in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. My unscientific conclusion is that physiotherapists are often the key to understanding how pain affects patients holistically.

Joel Dunstan was in a position many physiotherapists have been before. Physiotherapy faces a high attrition rate at five to 10 years of clinical practice—and Joel was almost included among those leaving the profession.